Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday Flowers With Copic Markers post. I have a number of blog posts about 3D flowers and the different ways of coloring them. This technique is just a little bit different where Copic Markers are concerned. Rather than just coloring the petals and calling it good, we are going to let the color bleed to create a softer look. Let me show you what I mean.
Flowers With Copic Markers
Oh My Goodness…I LOVE Pintrest! There are so many amazing ideas out there and today I found a great one I just had to play around with. We have all seen how to use inks and sprays to color 3-D paper flowers, but not once did I even consider using my Copic markers for that purpose. Kate Palmer from the Copic OZ blog did consider this and with amazing results! Check out her post and watch the three videos showing different techniques.
Here’s my try at this fun technique. I made these flowers using the Tim Holtz and Sizzix Tattered Florals Bigz die with Georgia Pacific cardstock.
Red & Yellow Flower
The first flower I made is this pretty yellow and red “rose”. To create the flower, I used two medium and three small flowers from the die. I spritzed them with water before scrunching them up with my fingers to shape them. The layers are glued together with Quick Dry adhesive from Scotch. After the glue dried, I colored about half of each petal with Y17 Golden Yellow and then edged the petals with R27 Cadmium Red. I don’t have any of the Copic Blending Solution, but another option that Kate gave was the Alcohol Inks Blending Solution, so I used that. As you can see, the colors bled together nicely. To speed up the drying and to intensify the colors, I dried each flower with the heat gun.
Pink Flower
The next flower I tried was a bigger one using only two layers, the middle flower and the daisy type flower. This time I did not add any water to the layers before I started, I just scrunched the petals with my fingernails, being very careful with the delicate daisy. The petals were first colored with RV13 Tender Pink and then with RV14 Begonia Pink. As an afterthought I went around the very edge of each petal with the darker RV69 Peony. Again, I used the Alcohol Blending Solution and then dried it with the heat gun.
Blue Violet Flower
The last flower I made used two of the large petals, and then one each of the daisy petal and the medium petal. Again I just used my fingers to shape the petals. The colors used for this flower were BV01 Viola, BV02 Prune, and BV04 Blue Berry. The colors look different online, it’s much too blue on here. In person the flower has more of the violet color to it.
I used gems from Walmart for the centers of the two large flowers. I was so excited I did not wait for the glue to dry to take the pictures! These will be so pretty on any project in any color combination. The only limitation you have is the colors of Copic Markers that you own.
Thank you for stopping by to check out today’s Flashback Friday Flowers With Copic Markers post. Isn’t this a fun technique? It’s difficult to see in the images above, but the flowers have a little bit of shimmer to them. I have no idea why unless it has to do with adding heat to speed up the drying time. However it happened, I do like that added touch.
Here are a couple of other posts featuring 3D Flowers and Copic Markers. Let me know in the comments below which is your favorite? Will you be trying today’s example? If so I would love to see the results. Until then have a fantastic weekend and I will see you back in the craft room again soon.
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